AI-Driven Detection & Response Security Engineer

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

HSA/FSA

401(k) including match

Parental leave

Caregiver leave

Fertility reimbursement

Job summary

Headway is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Detection & Response team, building real-time visibility and robust defenses across production and corporate environments. You will help automate detections, respond to threats, and improve incident response documentation.

The role emphasizes AI-forward security tooling, autonomous work in a fast-paced setting, and collaboration with engineering to protect therapists, patients, and payer partners.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years with responsibilities related to security response and automation.
• 4–5+ years in DevOps, IT, software engineering, or similar with security responsibilities.
• SIEM/observability experience in cloud or distributed environments.
• Sound judgment on AI and automation: apply where helpful; know when to prefer a deterministic tool or human.
• Ability to work autonomously in an async, high-autonomy environment.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Detection engineering: build detections, logging, and tooling for real-time visibility across cloud, SaaS, and corporate environments.
• Incident response engineering: run IR activities, threat hunting, and improve processes and documentation.
• AI security tooling and automation: implement AI where appropriate and define what AI-forward detection looks like.
• Security alert triage: triage alerts and become proficient in your environment.
• Team contributions: participate in on-call, write runbooks, mentor peers, and drive security initiatives.
• Documentation: keep detections, logging, runbooks, and threat intel well-documented.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat hunting

Automation

SIEM/observability

Python

TypeScript

AWS

GitHub

Tools

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Headway is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Detection & Response team, building real-time visibility and robust defenses across production and corporate environments. You will help automate detections, respond to threats, and improve incident response documentation.

The role emphasizes AI-forward security tooling, autonomous work in a fast-paced setting, and collaboration with engineering to protect therapists, patients, and payer partners.